The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Periodical criticismR.Cadell, 1835 |
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Pàgina 14
... suffered no imputa- tion from so doing . This practice naturally led to habits of conviviality , to which the Scottish lawyers , till of very late years , were rather too much ad- dicted . Few men drank so hard as the counsellors of the ...
... suffered no imputa- tion from so doing . This practice naturally led to habits of conviviality , to which the Scottish lawyers , till of very late years , were rather too much ad- dicted . Few men drank so hard as the counsellors of the ...
Pàgina 29
... suffered by the sword , or by the executioner , during the reigns in the two last monarchs of the Stuart line . These are most numerous in the western districts of Ayr , Gallo- way , and Dumfries ; but they are also to be found in other ...
... suffered by the sword , or by the executioner , during the reigns in the two last monarchs of the Stuart line . These are most numerous in the western districts of Ayr , Gallo- way , and Dumfries ; but they are also to be found in other ...
Pàgina 135
... suffer him this day to win his spurs ; for if God be pleased , I will this journee be his , and the honour thereof , and to them that be about him . ' " 1 1 Denis Sauvage's edition bears that this body of cavalry was Eng- lish ; but we ...
... suffer him this day to win his spurs ; for if God be pleased , I will this journee be his , and the honour thereof , and to them that be about him . ' " 1 1 Denis Sauvage's edition bears that this body of cavalry was Eng- lish ; but we ...
Pàgina 140
... suffer under any unusual scarcity of discontent . He knows , indeed , that miseries are indeed neces- sary to his happiness , and though perhaps not quite so pleasant at the moment as his other indispensa- ble enjoyments , roast beef ...
... suffer under any unusual scarcity of discontent . He knows , indeed , that miseries are indeed neces- sary to his happiness , and though perhaps not quite so pleasant at the moment as his other indispensa- ble enjoyments , roast beef ...
Pàgina 141
... suffer his gravity and grandeur to be broken in upon by such paltry considerations . The quiet Scotchman patiently endures them with- out knowing them to be evils ; or if he by chance receives annoyance , hereafter goes round about to ...
... suffer his gravity and grandeur to be broken in upon by such paltry considerations . The quiet Scotchman patiently endures them with- out knowing them to be evils ; or if he by chance receives annoyance , hereafter goes round about to ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 87 - Thornton. A SPORTING TOUR THROUGH THE NORTHERN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND GREAT PART OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. By Colonel T. THORNTON, of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. With the Original Illustrations by GARRARD, and other Illustrations and Coloured Plates by GE LODGE.
Pàgina 113 - Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV.
Pàgina 332 - I leave to my friend, Mr. John Home, of Kilduff, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice ; and one single bottle of that other liquor called port. I also leave to him six dozen of port, provided that he attests under his hand, signed John Hume, that he has himself alone finished that bottle at two sittings. By this concession, he will at once terminate the only two differences that ever arose between us concerning temporal matters.
Pàgina 198 - Our friend Gay is used as the friends of Tories are by Whigs — and generally by Tories too. Because he had humour, he was supposed to have dealt with Dr. Swift, in like manner as when any one had learning formerly, he was thought to have dealt with the devil...
Pàgina 135 - They hooted a third time, advancing with their cross-bows presented, and began to shoot. The English archers then advanced one step forward, and shot their arrows with such force and quickness, that it seemed as if it snowed.
Pàgina 136 - return to him and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for...
Pàgina 30 - But wherever they existed, Old Mortality was sure to visit them when his annual round brought them within his reach. In the most lonely recesses of the mountains, the moor-fowl shooter has been often surprised to find him busied in cleaning the moss from the grey stones, renewing with his chisel the half-defaced inscriptions, and repairing the emblems of death with which these simple monuments are usually adorned.
Pàgina 140 - Groans of Timothy Testy and Samuel Sensitive; with a Few Supplementary Sighs from Mrs. Testy : with which are now for the First Time interspersed, Varieties, incidental to the Principal Matter, in Prose and Verse.
Pàgina 133 - We be not well ordered to fight this day, for we be not in the case to do any great deed of arms; we have more need of rest.
Pàgina 237 - ... as at the saddest spectacle they had ever seen. When he had led us a mile without the town, he then declared what further he had in commission; that we should not dare to meet any more above three in number; and that against eight...